News

14 August 2015 - 7:00pm

Miners Shot Down: Remembering Marikana

Join War on Want, film maker Rehad Desai and James Nichol, lawyer for the miners' families in commemorating the 3rd anniversary of the Marikana Mining Massacre and in building a global movement against the criminalisation of protest. Book your tickets here

2 August 2015 - 5:30pm

UK and France paid 24m euros in Calais migrants ISDS case

A spokesperson for the company Eurotunnel has revealed that the UK and French governments were required by a private arbitration tribunal to pay out nearly 24 million euros for failing to provide adequate security around the entrance to the Channel Tunnel between 1999 and 2002.

31 July 2015 - 3:45am

Impact of mining and people’s resistance in the Philippines

War on Want’s Graciela Romero participated in the four-day visit to the local communities in a ‘learning and solidarity mission’ organised by Centre for Environmental Concern and Cordillera Peoples Alliance. During the visit, community and grassroots leaders as well as a municipal Councillor commented on the environmental damages caused by the Lepanto mine in the Cordillera of the Mankayan municipality in the Philippines.

23 July 2015 - 10:30am

“You’re on your own mate”

How Osbornomics sacrifices basic needs to the market.

George Osborne’s turned a sleight of hand trick by announcing what he called a ‘living wage’ in his budget. Yet if you look behind the spin, 'osbornornomics' far from prioritises basic needs it leaves us alone as we face the market.